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Use of ride hailing plummeted in Massachusetts in 2020

Jun. 14, 2021 06:49 PM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — The use of ride hailing services plummeted in Massachusetts in 2020 as the pandemic shuttered businesses and forced many to work from home. ...

FILE - In this March 20, 2020, file photo, the Amazon campus outside the company headquarters in Seattle sits nearly deserted on an otherwise sunny and warm afternoon. Corporate and tech employees at Amazon won't have to work in offices full time after coronavirus restrictions are lifted. The online retail giant said in a company blog post Thursday, June 10, 2021, that those workers can work remotely two days a week. In addition, the employees can work remotely from a domestic location for four full weeks each year. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
Amazon now says remote work OK 2 days a week

Jun. 10, 2021 05:08 PM EDT

Many Americans moved to less pricey housing markets in 2020

By Alex Veiga Jun. 10, 2021 01:39 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Many Americans who moved last year relocated to areas where homes were, on average, bigger and less expensive. On...

Montana employees working remote will head back to worksites

Jun. 01, 2021 12:50 PM EDT
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana state employees who have been working remotely because of the pandemic will begin returning to their worksites this month and...

Senate passes 3 virus bills, some vaccination sites to close

By Holly Ramer And Kathy Mccormack May. 27, 2021 10:19 AM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A bill aimed at curtailing the governor’s authority during future pandemics or other emergencies has cleared the state Senate. ...

Editorial Roundup: U.S.

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 01:25 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 19 The Boston Globe on U.S. aid to Israel should...

Sugar Bliss Bakery owner Teresa Ging organizes arranges bakery items in her shop in Chicago's famed Loop, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. In many downtown areas where companies closed their offices and commuting ground to a halt, sandwich shops, bakeries and other small businesses are waiting with guarded optimism for their customers to return. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar)
Downtown stores, businesses await their customers' return

By Joyce M. Rosenberg May. 17, 2021 08:07 AM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, April 8, 2021 file photo, Georgia Tech employee Adam Jackson receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at the Vaccination Site on the campus of Georgia Tech in Atlanta. The University System of Georgia announced Thursday, May 13, 2021 that students and employees will not be required to be vaccinated for the start of the fall 2021 semester.. (AP Photo/Danny Karnik, File)
Georgia public universities won't mandate COVID-19 vaccine

By Jeff Amy May. 14, 2021 04:27 PM EDT

North Dakota's most costly leased building largely unused

By James Macpherson May. 13, 2021 04:27 PM EDT
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $3 million in rent over the next two years for unused office space for a state agency...

In this photo from Friday, April 16, 2021, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly answers questions from reporters following an event at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Kelly has announced that state government agencies will resume normal operations starting the week of June 13, 2021, after months of having many employees work remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
Governor: Kansas agencies resuming normal operations in June

By John Hanna May. 12, 2021 03:24 PM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 2, 2021, file photo, a woman, wearing a protective mask due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, walks past the signs of an employment agency, in Manchester, N.H. Companies are advertising more jobs than they were before the pandemic, when the unemployment rate was a 50-year low of 3.5%. So they clearly want to add workers. Yet hiring stumbled in April because many employers couldn't find as many as they needed. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
EXPLAINER: Did US hiring slow because of a ‘labor shortage’?

By Christopher Rugaber May. 08, 2021 10:43 AM EDT

Many Las Cruces municipal employees back to in-person work

May. 08, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Many municipal employees of New Mexico's second most populous city who have worked remotely during the pandemic are back at their...

FILE - Homes, in suburban Salt Lake City, are shown on April 13, 2019. Utah is one of two Western states known for rugged landscapes and wide-open spaces that are bucking the trend of sluggish U.S. population growth. The boom there and in Idaho are accompanied by healthy economic expansion, but also concern about strain on infrastructure and soaring housing prices. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Study: Residents left big metros during pandemic for family

By Mike Schneider May. 06, 2021 12:59 PM EDT

FILE - Homes, in suburban Salt Lake City, are shown on April 13, 2019. Utah is one of two Western states known for rugged landscapes and wide-open spaces that are bucking the trend of sluggish U.S. population growth. The boom there and in Idaho are accompanied by healthy economic expansion, but also concern about strain on infrastructure and soaring housing prices. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Study: Residents left big metros during pandemic for family

By Mike Schneider May. 06, 2021 12:50 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo, a woman walks below a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, Calif. On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, Google said that it expects about 20% of its workforce to still work remotely after the pandemic. In addition, some 60% will work a hybrid schedule that includes about three days in the office and two days wherever the employees work best. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Google says 20% of workers will be remote, many more hybrid

May. 05, 2021 08:49 PM EDT

Parson orders Missouri state workers back to the office

May. 05, 2021 10:05 AM EDT
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has directed all state employees to return to in-person work in the office by May 17, after many spent...

Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania

By The Associated Press May. 05, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Scranton Times-Tribune. May 3, 2021. Editorial: Pass Yaw bill to help farms get greener Pennsylvania has fallen far...

New Hampshire state workers to return to offices by May 10

By Holly Ramer Apr. 29, 2021 05:01 PM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — State government employees who have been working from home during the coronavirus pandemic will be back in their offices by May 10, Gov....

Second grader Abigail Meza does her school work at Christa McAuliffe School in Jersey City, N.J., Thursday, April 29, 2021. Kindergarten through third grade students are returning to their school buildings in Jersey City for their first time in over a year. New Jersey's two largest cities have begun making their return to classrooms in person after working remotely because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Students in Jersey City began returning to school today, just days after Newark officials said they were expanding in-person instruction to four days a week, up from two. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
In-person learning returning to NJ's biggest districts

By Ted Shaffrey Apr. 29, 2021 01:27 PM EDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by NerdWallet shows Liz Weston, a columnist for personal finance website NerdWallet.com. (NerdWallet via AP, File)
Liz Weston: How the pandemic has shaken up retirement

By Liz Weston Of Nerdwallet Apr. 19, 2021 06:53 AM EDT